The people of Germany in a free election selected the Nazi Party because they made great promises that appealed to them because they were desperate and destitute. And why is that? Because Germany was bankrupt.

And this:

The truth is, 70 years later, we are drifting on the tides toward another beachhead and it is the bankruptcy of the United States of America.

The reaction ranged from “shock to befuddlement,” the newspaper reports.

Mourdock essentially lost the 2012 U.S. Senate race in Indiana when he said in the campaign’s final weeks that pregnancy as a result of rape is “something that God intended to happen.” The Republican said his words were “twisted out of context,” but the damage was done: The Senate seat long held by the GOP’s Richard Lugar was won by Democrat Joe Donnelly. Mourdock and Todd Akin, who made comments about “legitimate rape,” are often cited as examples of what not to do if you’re a Republican in a winnable race.

Mourdock said he wasn’t making a direct comparison to President Obama and the Democratic Party in his remarks to the Indiana GOP.

Check out these tweets from John Zody, chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party, and Mike Murphy, a Republican delegate from Marion County.